Yesterday I spent some time preparing the media assets for all of the farms I had documented so far and including the one I am posting today I have seven and am working on an eighth currently. I am not sure when I will reach my stopping point, but for now, I am chugging along. Today’s far is the very first of the ones that I have posted that I would highly suggest you NOT go farm. This location is Scratchrock Burrow aka the cave that Scratchy the Elite Bear lives in, and it is heavily involved in a low-level quest chain. That means you are going to have a ton of low-level players traipsing in and out of the cave and since we don’t want to obstruct progress… there are going to be times that you have to wait for a player to tag scratchy upon spawning slowing down the progress. Because this is a level 16 bear… the drop rates are also completely awful meaning you will be standing here for many hours. I legitimately lost track of how long I farmed this before getting the two drops.
Scratchrock Burrow is located due south of Windsward, making it an extremely easy to get to farming spot. Scratchy himself is on a 5-minute respawn timer and will aggro you as soon as he spawns in if you are anywhere in the vicinity. There is some silver and saltpeter in the mine and some iron outside the mine, but apart from that, the only meaningful resource are the game animals outside that you could farm for leather while waiting on the timer to tick down. Since players are still starting fresh on servers given the uptick in the game, you are going to get multiple visits per farming run of folks who need the quest. Be nice and invite them to your party just to make sure that they get kill credit. This however means that you need to pay a bit more attention than the usual alt-tab until you hear the boss spawn and then tab back in to kill it immediately.
What makes this camp so frustrating is the rarity of the good drops. I’ve heard tale of folks rolling up on this camp and getting either the hatchet or ring within minutes. In my experience I got the earring that is useless over and over… and the only reason I included it in my drops image is to make you aware that it is a thing. I have this feeling that when you kill a monster there is a chance of getting a drop on the rare loot table, and that on this particular encounter that secondary table is heavily weighted toward giving you the earring. You might have also noticed that this is the same loot that Gren in Brightwood drops… which is absolutely true. Gren even at level 60 is an annoying boss to solo, so I opted towards farming Scratchy instead. Another weird thing that you will notice when you get one, is that the ring is bugged and has no image associated with it… meaning it just looks like whatever you moused over before mousing over it.
You may also notice that the hatchet is misspelled, which leads me to believe that this entire camp might be ephemeral. There was a situation like this out in Ebonscale Reach where a level 45ish pirate dropped the loot table of an encounter in the outdoor dungeon Siren’s Grotto. There might be a time in the future when Gren and Scratchy are decoupled and you can no longer farm a level 16 encounter and get level 60 gear. Even with that in mind… it is a rough farm. I am glad I did it just so that I could walk away with the ring, but I can’t say I would suggest anyone else follow in my footsteps. I did the work however so I am documenting it on my blog.
Like I said at the start I have six more of these with a seventh in the work, so you will likely see more in the coming days. I’ve collected all of my New World loot guides in a single “Loot Farms” category. As always if you know any great spots that I have not visited that drop level 590 gear, please drop me a line below.
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Good Morning Friends! While I took the weekend off from making blog posts, I did not take the weekend off from documenting New World loot farms and as a result, I have several more days of these ready to go. This morning we are going to talk about a loot farm involving an Angry Earth stone bear named Red Claw in Ebonscale Reach. While this farm is absolutely soloable, it is very likely you will roll up on the location and have multiple others trying to farm the boss as well. I highly suggest that you build impromptu groups because the random chatter can sustain you through the hours of farming. There are also a lot of various Angry Earth dryad-type creatures scattered around the area and at any given time you are going to likely have to deal with both the bear spawning and a number of other things as well. It is possible to “break” the camp and get the spawns timed out so that you only have to deal with one thing at a time, but this takes some significant work to actually pull off.
Unfortunately the camp is not really located near a teleport, so it is going to be a significant run from anywhere. I suggest starting at the main town in Ebonscale Reach and then running south along the roads. About the midpoint in this journey, there is a named boar called Mighty Tusk that you might encounter but unfortunately, it has no significant drops. The location we are shooting for is called Euphorcea and is your standard dryad ruins-type location. One interesting thing about this camp, in particular, is that Rafflebones spawns as a level 66 mob in the courtyard and with a coordinated effort you can farm that as well every few hours adding a number of completely random 590 item level drops. I spent about six hours at this spawn and during that time I saw Rafflebones twice and it dropped a 590 Musket and a 590 Ice Gauntlet.
If I thought the last farm I wrote about was rough… this one would have likely broken me were it not for making a number of friends along the way. New World seems to have this habit of getting “stuck” on a particular drop. For me, it was the Bloodsucker’s Sword and during the course of my six-hour farm, I saw six of them in total. I specifically came out here to get a Great Axe, and the person that was there with me probably saw around the same number of those while waiting on a single Greatsword to drop. All told I saw 6 of the Greatsword, 4 of the dexterity ring, a wide array of the sub 590 trash drops, and my final drop was the Guillotine that I came there seeking. I also picked up a wide array of legendary weapon crafting materials in the process but lost count of those. Another thing of note is that you can use this boss to farm your daily Obsidian Gypsum drops.
Potentially the most interesting thing about this camp in particular is it changed my outlook on how to approach these. I made so many friends while farming this one item in particular, and since that point, I have held conversations with a wide number of them… one even regularly inviting me to activities. It also made me start to rethink my roleplaying-server indoctrination of considering those with dumb names to be not someone worth spending time on. I would have never struck up a conversation with someone named EbolaIsBae but after spending a few hours with them, realized they are a pretty solid person. Again all of these weapons can be upgraded all the way to 590 once you have capped your expertise at 600 and gathered some Umbral Shards.
Like I said at the head of this article, I’ve already documented several more of these loot farms and will be rolling them out in the coming days. At some point, I am going to have to collect these on a permanent page or something, but for the time being I am collecting them all in a single sub-category called “Loot Farms”. If you know any great spots for 590 gear that I should check out, feel free to drop me a line below.
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Featuring: Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, and Tamrielo
In this show, we start off as we have the last several weeks with a discussion about the Corporate Collapse Speedrun that is Muskrat and Twitter. We don’t want to talk about it… but each week brand new levels of stupid nonsense keep happening. Bel talks about his mission to document “camps” and gear drops in New World and how he is having to unlearn some of his “Roleplaying Server” biases. Tam talks a bit about Battletech, Mechwarrior, and the mods that are currently available for both. Kodra talks a bit about being “Sudoku Famous” and having a puzzle featured on Cracking the Cryptic. Ash talks about revisiting Tactics Ogre Reborn now that it is actually on a platform he currently can play on. Tam talks about the Star Citizen Intergalactic Aerospace Expo coming up this week and some of the progress made for open worlds and race tracks. Finally, Bel makes a plea that if you are not watching Andor… you should get on that because it might be the best Star Wars to date.
Good Morning Friends! Today we continue this mission to document gear farms in New World with one located near Valor Hold in Edengrove. Again this entire mission is to present some options for new to 60 players to go out and farm up some of the 590 named items that won’t degrade in level when you use them. This camp in particular is a little bit on the tougher side because it involves three spawns that are a challenge to split up. The one that drops what we need is Taedas an Angry Earth shaman-type creature, but spawning with it is a prowler melee type and an archer ranged type Angry Earth. Essentially breaking this spawn will always be a bit of a challenge, but in theory, if you can drag out your initial kill so that you leave yourself some breathing room between kills, it will make subsequent loops easier on you as they won’t ALL be spawning in at the same time. All three encounters should spawn in at level 57, which is doable for a reasonably geared level 60 solo.
This one is pretty close to the Valor Hold stronghold in Edengrove, which is the southernmost of the two outposts. You can get there by exiting the west side of town and hugging the eastern bank of the lake until you reach a set of ruins called Taedas Stronghold. The first part of your journey will have a lot of very aggro boars, but then will quickly transition into peaceful ones and the occasional random Angry Earth mob. If you hug the mountainside of the shoreline you can avoid most of these. Sadly there isn’t really anything interesting resource-wise to be gathered along the way other than boar hides. As you get closer to the ruins there will be an increased density of Angry Earth and breaking into the camp will involve clearing two sets of prowler/archer spawns. One interesting thing of note, there is an empty room that you can crawl into on the south side of the ruins if you need to take a break while farming.
It was really at this farm that I began to understand the extent of my madness. In order to verify these drops I wanted to make sure that I was able to get all of them. As I said in my last post, the New World Databases have been notoriously wrong about drops and still have things listed that have not dropped in a number of patches. This means that in many cases I have to spend an extreme amount of time doing the same kill over and over. I think on this camp it took me about four hours to see all of the drops in the rotation but during that time I got 4 of the Life Staff, 1 Void Gauntlet, and 1 Hammer which was the last thing I managed to pick up before dipping. Let’s take a look at the notable drops:
As I said above I spent about four hours at this camp and during that time I saw six drops off the 590 loot table. Four of those were the staff, and I got a single hammer and void gauntlet. This is not going to be a fast way to get gear unless you are exceedingly lucky, but it is predictable and can be farmed without a group. This again can be taken all of the ways to 625 with the use of Umbral Shards and the upgrade mechanic for gear level 590 or higher. Tadeas also has a chance of dropping legendary crafting materials, but during my four-hour stint, I did not see any drop. You will also get a lot of high-level potions and assorted crafting materials that drop from Angry Earth in general. It is a bit of a boring farm especially due to the low-lighting conditions within the temple itself, but if you need any of the items above it is worth your time.
I have at least two more of these documented so far, and plan on trying a few more spots over the weekend so expect to see this series continue at least into next week. Do you know any great spots that I should check out? Drop me a line below.
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